When I think about how long I've been losing weight, I'm a little bit embarrassed, and a lot frustrated! I was watching this amazing inspirational video about a guy who was told he'd never walk without the assistance of braces. He proved his doctor wrong when he started doing yoga. He lost over 100 pounds and could do some of the toughest yoga poses, in about a year's time. Amazing!
Unfortunately, this video left me thinking about myself and how long I've been doing this. I'm thinking to myself, shouldn't I be done by now? Shouldn't I have lost it all by now? Two years and I've only lost 40 pounds!
It was back in May 2010, at 213 lbs, when I started on this journey with a weight loss plan that I'm not allowed to mention here by name. It was the jump start I needed, though, because I lost weight very fast. I did 4 rounds and lost quite a bit (and gained quite a bit back for a grand total of 30 pounds). With this diet, you have to give yourself breaks between rounds, and each break is longer than the last. So it was a couple of months before I was to start my next round, and when the time came I just couldn't bring myself to do another. While the results were fantastic, the diet was hard!
So I guess it's not so bad because I kind of took a break where I wasn't actively trying to lose weight. I got through the holidays and then started actively trying to lose weight again around the beginning of 201, the "old fashioned way"- diet, exercise, weighing and measuring, calorie counting and paying attention to fat and carbs. Unfortunately, I had less than stellar results at first. Then I got Bodybugg and I started losing again. The loss has been incredibly slow, though.... Another year gone by, managed to get through the holidays before I just lost my motivation and gained some back....I'm still not back to my ticker weight....
Now I'm back on track in 2012, but realizing I've been doing this for 2 years....I'm just frustrated with the thought! It amounts to a whopping 2 pounds a month... oh my gosh, I shouldn't even be thinking about this! I need to keep things in perspective. It's about slow and steady. It's about fitness and lifestyle. It's about keeping my eye on the future and just keep going.....
I guess I'm venting my frustration more than anything else. How long has it taken everyone else to get to where they are?